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A carved wooden Tiki altar decorated with bright red hibiscus flowers and scented candles set a peaceful tone for my massage. Once my massage began, it didn’t take me long to figure out that Pirily, my massage therapist was quite experienced. Pirily skillfully combined traditional Polynesian massage techniques in additional to Swedish and deep tissue massage with a bit of Lomi Lomi thrown into the mix. I was covered from head to toe with warm, soothing vanilla oil. Beginning with a foot treatment followed by a relaxing full body and scalp massage, Pirily pushed, pulled and stretched me into total relaxation. By the time she was finished I could barely get off the massage table. I felt like I was marinated in vanilla oil and smelled like a delicious vanilla cupcake. …